FINE ARTS COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE, 1901

FINE ARTS COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE, 1901

No. 17 of 1901.
An ordinance relating to copyright in works of the fine
arts, and for repressing the commission of fraud in
the production and sate of such works.

[12th October, 1901.]

1. This 6rdinance may be cited as the Fine Arts Copy-
right Ordinance, 1901.
[ss. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, rep. No. 24 of 1912.]

As atrionded by Lasy Rev. Ord., 1924,





8.-(1) No person shall do or cause to be done any or
either of the following acts:-

(a) fraudulently sign or otherwise affix, or fraudulently
cause to be signed or otherwise affixed, to or upon any
painting, drawing, or photograph, or the negative thereof,
any name, initials, or monogram

(b) fraudiflently sell, publisli, exhibit, or dispose of,. or
offer for sale, exhibition, or distribution, any draw-
ing, or photogriaph, or negative of a photograph having
thereon the name, initials, or monogram of a person who did.
not execute or make such work;

(c) fraudulently utter, dispose of, or put off, or cause to
be uttered or disposed of, any copy or colourable imitation
of any painting, drawing, or photograph, or negative of a
photograph, whether there is subsisting copyright therein or
not, as having been made or executed by the author or
maker of the original work from which such copy or imita-
tion has been taken.

(2) Where the author or maker of any painting, drawing,
or photograph, or negative of a photograph, made either
before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, has
sold or otherwise parted with the possession of such work, if
any alteration is afterwards made therein by any other per-
son, by addition or otherwise, no person shall be at liberty,
during the life of the author or maker of such work, without
his consent, to make or knowingly to sell or publish or offer
for sale, such work or any copies of such work so altered as
aforesaid, or of any part thereof, as or for the unaltered
work of such author or maker.

(3) Every offender under this section shall forfeit to the
person aggrieved a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars
or not exceeding double the full price, if any, at which all
such copies, engravings, imitations, or altered works have
been sold or offered for sale; and furthet all such copies,
engravings, imitations, or altered works shall be forfeited to
the person, or the assigns or legal representatives of the
person, whose name, imitials, or monogram is or are so,
fraudulently signed or affixed thereto or to whom such
spurious or altered work is so fraudulently or falsely ascribed
as aforesaid: Provided always that the penalties imposed





by this section shall not be incurred unless the person whose
name, initials, or monogram is or are so fraudulently signed
Or affixed, or to whom such spurious or altered work is so
fraudulently or falsely ascribed as aforesaid, has been living
at, or within twenty years next before, the time when the.
offence may have been committed.

9. All pecuniary penalties which are incurred, and all
such unlawful copies, imitations, and all other effects and
things which are forfeited, by offenders, pursuant to this
Ordinance, may be recovered by the person hereinbefore
empowered to recover the same, either by action in the
Superme Court against the party offending or by summary
proceedings before a Magistrate.
Iss. 10, 11, 12 and 13, rep. No. 24 of 1-912.]

No. 18 of 1901, repealed by No. 8 of 1912.

No. 19 of 1901, repealed by No. 31 of 1911.

No. 20 of 1901.
An Ordinance to facilitate the investment of turst and other
funds in the United Kingdom in Hongkong Government
securities.

[10th December, 1901]

WREREAs by the Colonial Stock Act, 1900, the securities in which a
trustee may invest under the powers of the Trustee Act, 1893, are
declared to include any Colonial. Stock which is registered in the
United Kingdom in accordance with the provisions of the Colonial
Stock Acts, and with respect to which there have been observed
such conditions, if any, as the Lords Commissioners of the Treasur 's
may, by order notified in the London Gazette, prescribe; AND
WHEREAS the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have, by ail order
dated the 6th day of December, 1900, prescribed as two of the said
conditions that a Colony shall provide by legislation for the pay-
ment, out of the revenues of the Colony, of any sums which may
become payable to Stockholders under any judginent, decree, rule,
or order of a Court in the United Kingdom, and that the Colonial
Government should place on record a formal expression of their
opinion that any Colonial legislation which appears to the Imperial
Government. to alter any of the provisions affecting the stock to
the injury of the stockholder, or to involve a departure from the

As arnended by Law. Rev. Ord., 1924.
[Originally No.24 of 1901. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Penalties for frad\udulent productions and sales. 25 & 26 Vict. C. 68, s. 7. Recovery of pecuniary penalties. 25 & 26 Vict. C. 68, s. 8. [Originally No.25 of 1901. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] 63 & 64 Vict. C. 62. 56 & 57 Vict. C. 53.

[Originally No.24 of 1901. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Penalties for frad\udulent productions and sales. 25 & 26 Vict. C. 68, s. 7. Recovery of pecuniary penalties. 25 & 26 Vict. C. 68, s. 8. [Originally No.25 of 1901. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] 63 & 64 Vict. C. 62. 56 & 57 Vict. C. 53.

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